Posted on 12/01/2011 5:20:19 PM PST by raptor22
New Energy: The latest salvo in the administration's war on energy may be new rules and permits to regulate a process to get oil and gas from porous rock, sacrificing jobs and economic growth while under review.
There are a few areas of the U.S. that are booming. Two of these are in North Dakota and Pennsylvania, states that sit atop two massive shale rock formations, the Bakken and the Marcellus.
Extraction of oil and natural gas from these formations have created jobs and economic growth in the midst of a stagnant and parched economy.
The oil and gas is extracted from this porous rock by a process called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."
The process involves the injection under high pressure of fluids, mainly water with a few chemical additives, to fracture the porous shale rock and allow the release and extraction of the oil and gas trapped inside the porous rock. Environmentalists contend these chemical additives contaminate groundwater supplies.
The fluid used in the process is 99.5% sand and water. There are other chemicals ranging from the citric acid found in soda to benzene, which are used to reduce friction and fight microbes.
Shale formations in which fracking is used are thousands of feet deep. Drinking water aquifers are generally only a hundred feet deep. There's solid rock between them.
Yet the Environmental Protection Agency, bowing to environmentalists' pressure and faithful to the administration mantra that fossil fuels are harmful and obsolete, is preparing to nip this economic boom in the bud by regulating it to death.
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Please spreading lies and use internet search functions.
Right here:Chesapeake Fracking Fluid Ingredients
The fact that you are using Wikipedia damages your credibility tremendously. It is full of liberal smears and lies.
The salient point is that there is not one case of well contamination from hydraulic fracturing in 60 years of its use.
You, Wikipedia and the environmentalists can spew all you want, but the only real danger is from surface spills.....and that danger is less than a truck of heating oil overturning.
The fact that you are using Wikipedia damages your credibility tremendously. It is full of liberal smears and lies.
The salient point is that there is not one case of well contamination from hydraulic fracturing in 60 years of its use.
You, Wikipedia and the environmentalists can spew all you want, but the only real danger is from surface spills.....and that danger is less than a truck of heating oil overturning.
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